On 28 October at 2 PM GMT/UTC and on 30 October at 6AM GMT/UTC, ISES is pleased to welcome the IEA SHC Solar Academy presenting a webinar on the topic of Solar Hot Water for 2030: An IEA SHC Task in Review.
Hot water demand for kitchen and sanitary use is continuously growing globally and as countries adopt commitments and targets to run their economies on renewable energy, the IEA Solar Heating and Cooling Program asked the question: How can solar hot water contribute to the sustainable energy transition for 2030?
Solar hot water has an installed base of ~800 million m2 (made up of glazed and unglazed thermal collectors), solar only supplied 12% (456 TWh) of the 3,750 TWh global residential hot water energy consumption. However, for the last 3 years Task 69 has worked on the barriers and opportunity to re-accelerate solar hot water’s development path through identifying best practices, emerging solar hot water components and systems, and mapping out the policy gaps for 2 technologies:
Thermosyphons: The incumbent solar champion (~57% of domestic hot water systems in operation in 2019)
PV Hot Water: The emerging player (anything from simple PV2Heat direct systems to advanced systems which aim to soak up excess PV).
In this webinar we will review some of the key results from Task 69 on thermosyphon systems (i.e., failure modes, success stories, and advances, presented by STB lead Bojia LI) and on PV water heaters (i.e., configuration options, opportunities, barriers, and policy needs, presented by STC lead Tony Day).
Webinar Speakers
– Prof Li Bojia (Solar Energy Application Center, China Academy of Building Research): “GHG Emissions Reductions Testing in China for Thermosyphon Systems”
– Tony Day (Independent Consultant / IERC): “PV Hot Water configurations, opportunities, barriers, and policy needs”
– Prof Robert Taylor (University of New South Wales): “Introduction and Task 69 Overview”
The webinar will be moderated by Bärbel Epp (Solrico).
About the Webinar
The webinar is organized by the Solar Academy of the IEA Solar Heating and Cooling Programme and hosted by ISES, the International Solar Energy Society.
The recordings of the webinars as well as the presentations given will be made available after the webinars.
Registration
ISES and the IEA SHC Solar Academy are pleased to present this webinar at two different times to best cater to our global audiences from all around the world.
The webinar on 30 October will consist of a broadcast of the presentations given on 28 October which will be followed by a live Q/A session with the moderator and speakers.
Register for the webinar on 28 October here.
Register for the broadcasted webinar + live Q/A on 30 October here.